wilhemina Posted May 5, 2008 Report Share Posted May 5, 2008 I would appreciate some help. Been using utorrents for a while now. My downloads start smoothly as long as I'm not at home. When I'm at home, none of my new downloads will start unless I'd already started the downloads elsewhere. As for those started outside my home connection they continue flawlessly when I move my laptop back home but once I initiate or start new downloads at home, all values remain at zero even when it detects high seed:peer ratio i.e. my torrent detects the seed and peers but that's it. Ratio= 0.000, availability=0.000, upload =0, download=0. the seed status says "0 of 0 connected <seednumber> in swarm". Yet outside my home network, it connects to the trackers and downloads the same torrent within seconds (which means it is definitely not a queue problem). What gives? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted May 6, 2008 Report Share Posted May 6, 2008 http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=15992#p258231 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted May 6, 2008 Report Share Posted May 6, 2008 What ISPs are we talking about?What's the topology of your home network? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hermanm Posted May 6, 2008 Report Share Posted May 6, 2008 Is this a torrent with a private flag?Can you ping the tracker from home?Is the tracker online? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilhemina Posted May 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2008 What ISPs are we talking about?What's the topology of your home network?in reply to this, it's a college campus network. So I already know that port forwarding won't get me anywhere. However even within the campus, I do get relatively good speeds; but at home, nothing (xcept of course I started it outside home)Is this a torrent with a private flag?No. This occurs for basically all my torrentsHow do you ping the tracker? would that be using the command prompt : ping then tracker address? A download right now gives a message on the tracker status: no connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. This doesn't stop my present download which is going at about 50kB/s but I don't know if that would signify a clue to the problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted May 10, 2008 Report Share Posted May 10, 2008 Something at home is blocking you from connecting to trackers. Firewall, router, ISP. Hard to tell. Start eliminating things to find out which one is doing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted May 11, 2008 Report Share Posted May 11, 2008 I doubt a ComCast Business line would block torrent traffic...but then again ComCast is testing questionable bandwidth-saving tactics for their networks. Can you try a proxy to see if you can route through/around your problem?(You'll almost certainly be firewalled when you do this, but better firewalled than unable to connect at all!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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